講座:戰爭書寫——佔領期的日本史及其迴音

澳洲國立大學的日本史教授 Tessa Morris-Suzuki 在東京時間九月九日(週六)上午八點(北京時間七點)有一場關於二戰後被同盟國佔領下的日本(1945–52)的歷史書寫(historiography)的講座。講座以英語進行,大約一個半小時,通過 Zoom 對公衆開放,但請事先註冊

以下是講座簡介。

Writing War: History in Occupied Japan and its Echoes for Today

As the world edges into a new Cold War, rising political tensions in East Asia are reflected in growing conflict over memories of history, and particularly of the history of the Asia-Pacific War. Increasing nationalism in all the countries of the region find expression in rewritings of that history. In Japan, a central feature of recent waves of historical revisionism has been a focus on the shaping of historiography in the postwar occupation period. The period from August 1945 to May 1952 was the era when historians first struggled to give meaning to the disastrous events of the war which had ravaged East Asia during the previous decade or more. The diverse ways in which they did this has had an enduring effect on the way in which the war is remembered to the present day. In the context of contemporary controversies over history, it is important to return to that occupation era and to reassess the possibilities and limitations of the way in which the history of the war was written by those who had just experienced it in their own lives.